Spaulding High School - Our Echo Yearbook (Barre, VT)

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left You discuss your plans for the evening with one of your friends on the telephone. You begin to discuss your day in school, your smile broadens at a comment from the other end of the line. Most of your homework is done; you'll finish the rest in below Stepping exuberantly, you quicken your steps and head for the door. The final bell has rung, you have gathered your coat and gotten the books you will need for homework. There were times when you study hall tomorrow. You think about your evening, and about the sleep you'd be catching up on later. The day will soon come to an end. just another day in the life at Spaulding. weren't sure you would, but you made it through another day. Your mind is full with thoughts of what you will do with your afternoon, you are happy to have a few hours to do whatever you please. left Smiling cheerfully, you greet your friends with pleasant “hellos.' There are ten minutes left before homeroom starts, you start to head for your locker. You chat- ter noisily with your neighbors as you gather what you need to make it through your first period class. You are in such a wonderful mood that nothing could bring you down; you are ready to take the worst that this school day has to offer. the Life of Spaulding 19

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Below — Danny Burke plays with the toy display. Those Greedy Juniors When Spaulding High School juniors were asked what the best part of their jobs were, most an- swers sounded like this: The money, said Jessica McCand- less; “You get to handle a lot of money, and the pay!” said Henry Laperle; and “When I get my paycheck,’ answered Greg Bisson. As each one spoke of money, there was a brightness in their eyes, and each let out a greedy little laugh. The feeling of all that cash in their fingers after receiving their paycheck pretty much makes up for the tedious hours spent on the job. There are some definite trying times involved with working. “I get some really impatient custo- mers. Some really get angry when you ask for I.D. for their checks. I don’t like people like that. They should have some consideration for workers,” re- plied Jessica McCandless when asked about her job. Henry La- perle stays tough with customers like that “One day a guy gave me ten dollars, and he told me he gave me a twenty dollar bill. I didn't give in, and I proved him wrong. He didn’t put up too big of a fight” Henry is a grinder-maker at Jockey Hollow, and sometimes they even let him make pizzas. There are, however, a few good parts about a job besides those crisp dollar bills. Christina Brigham says of her job at The Video Store, “It’s a lot of fun. I like the responsibility.” I think Renita Jacobs feels the same way about responsibility, because she said that “the best part is when I lock the front door on my way out” Nicki Corti, who works at Fisher- man's Galley, explains with a laugh, “Even though I smell like fish when I get out of there I like to see the kids make googly eyes at the lobsters.” Jobs are basically a way of mak- ing money for high school students. Some are good, some are bad. Most people regret miss- ing going out at night or to the football games on Saturdays. But as long as the money gets raked in, and there are study halls the next day, kids will get jobs. David Hoag Jobs 21